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We found the lost 1989 Mario Bros TV show King Koopa's Kool Kartoons

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To dream in the dark: Scott Marks says, “That’s all, folks!”

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Who fired the shot or shots that killed Pat Tillman?

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Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Salt” meets Peter Lawford’s “Pepper”

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We found the lost 1989 Mario Bros TV show King Koopa's Kool Kartoons

While going through a stash of vintage Betamax videotapes in search of local band footage for the Youtube channel BetaGems, we found September 1989 clips of the costumed King Koopa …

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To dream in the dark: Scott Marks says, “That’s all, folks!”

After what management said, I found it impossible to continue any further as The Reader’s film critic. What did they say? “Scott, I’m sorry to say we’re laying you off.” …

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Who fired the shot or shots that killed Pat Tillman?

This week’s trio was found lounging in an unmarked file box, stuffed with DVD screeners and buried deep in the inner-recesses of my storage locker. The Tillman Story (2010) Director …

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Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Salt” meets Peter Lawford’s “Pepper”

Democrats in Washington could stand to take a lesson from Hollywood’s demise in the late ‘60s. Voters’ cries for something new, something different, something progressive in a president were answered …

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The Gray Man: a comic book movie by any other name

Netflix dropped $200 million for their latest star-studded CG extravaganza The Gray Man. That’s $40 million more than the studio sprung for Scorsese’s likewise effects-driven The Irishman, making it the costliest film yet to debut …

August 4, 2022

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Popeye, Ghost World, How to Murder Your Wife, and other favorite comic book movies

The banners are down, the fanboys back in their parents’ basements, and the Gaslamp Quarter no longer resembles a giant roll of flypaper used by corporations to ensnare the costumed souls fortunate to acquire the …

July 28, 2022

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July 21, 2022

RRR: pulse-pounding action that outperforms any of its contemporary American counterparts

From India, an epic worthy of your attention. RRR (2022) After two hours of having the snot beat out of them, a pair of unwittingly adversarial revolutionaries, pitted against each other by their British overlords, …

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July 14, 2022

John Carpenter’s Elvis: the first of many collaborations between the director and star Kurt Russell

The competition was stiff on February 11, 1979, the night John Carpenter’s Elvis debuted on ABC. Gone With the Wind was on CBS and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was on NBC; both kneeled …

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July 7, 2022

Day of the Animals: Leslie Nielsen meets the Preston Sturges of ’70s schlock

Who didn’t like Leslie Nielsen, the white haired journeyman actor who went from B movies and recurring character roles in episodic TV dramas to breaking typecast and becoming an overnight comedy sensation? Day of the …

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June 30, 2022

Pondering pernicious Papas: Jasper Hadley, Wade Hunnicut, Joey LaMotta, and others

The arrival of Father’s Day started me pondering on pernicious Papas, and I wound up with five movie dads who probably didn’t get cards. 5) Jasper Hadley in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956) …

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June 23, 2022

Mirage : an entertaining, regulation black-and-white mistaken-identity paranoid thriller

Inspiration prevails in the strangest places, places like the 805 off-ramp while tooling towards Chula Vista. Mirage (1965) The trash-hauling buggy before me was piled so high with furniture, appliances, and the like that I …

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June 9, 2022

Paul Haggis’ Crash and burn

This week sees the opening of David Cronenberg’s latest, so what better time is to put in a bad word about Crash? No, not Cronenberg’s ode to a desensitized societies dependence of sex in cars, …

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Save the Cinema: Samantha Morton’s feel good flop

The poster art proudly presents the lead actors standing on a red carpet beneath a gleaming marquee, but don’t let that fool you. The cinematic savior in the piece devotes more time to hanging onto …

June 2, 2022

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Martin Scorsese sells Armani, Claude Lelouch sells Renault, Jean-Luc Godard.sells jeans

Welcome to this week’s second and final installment of Kings of Ads. Watch the Kings here. KINGS OF ADS, PART 2 Hugh Hudson. British Airways: “Face” Advertisement. (0:22 - 1:49). Great Britain, 1989. How many …

May 30, 2022

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May 19, 2022

Commercials by Godard, Scorsese, Chabrol, Wenders, Lynch, Fellini, Cronenberg, Coppola, Argento, etc.

We’ve all seen compilations of great director’s student films, so why not an anthology that pays tribute to their work as commercial pitchmen and women? Earlier this week while paging through the stacks at Rarefilmm, …

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May 12, 2022

Writer-director Elisa Amoruso offers Bella Thorne the best of both worlds

This week brings a twofer from your friendly neighborhood Bella Thorne completist: Time is Up and Measure of Revenge. Plus a surprise bonus! Time is Up (2021) Swim team contender Roy (Benjamin Mascolo) secretly pines …

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We found the lost 1989 Mario Bros TV show King Koopa's Kool Kartoons

To dream in the dark: Scott Marks says, “That’s all, folks!”

Who fired the shot or shots that killed Pat Tillman?

Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Salt” meets Peter Lawford’s “Pepper”

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